How Long to Read Hölderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche

How Long Does it Take to Read Hölderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 44 minutes to read Hölderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche by Stefan Zweig

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This is the second volume in a trilogy in which Stefan Zweig builds a composite picture of the European mind through intellectual portraits selected from among its most representative and influential figures. In Hölderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche, Zweig concentrates on three giants of German literature to portray the artist and thinker as a figure possessed by a powerful inner vision at odds with the materialism and scientific positivism of his time, in this case, the nineteenth century. Zweig's subjects here are respectively a lyric poet, a dramatist and writer of novellas, and a philosopher. Each led an unstable life ending in madness and/or suicide and not until the twentieth century did each make their full impact. Whereas the nineteenth-century novel is socially capacious in terms of subject and audience, the three figures treated here are prophets or forerunners of modernist ideas of alienation and exile. Hölderlin and Kleist consciously opposed the worldly harmoniousness of Goethe's classicism in favor of a visionary inwardness and dramatization of the subjective psyche. Nietzsche set himself as a destroyer and rebuilder of philosophy and critic of the degradation of the German spirit through nationalism and militarism. Zweig's choice of subjects reflects a division in his own soul. The image of Goethe recurs here as the ultimate upholder of Zweig's own ideals: scientist and artist, receptive to world culture, supremely rational and prudent. Yet Zweig was aware that Hölderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche were more daring explorers of the dangerous and destructive aspects of man that needed to be seen and comprehended in the clarifying light of poetry and philosophy.

How long is Hölderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche?

Hölderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche by Stefan Zweig is 342 pages long, and a total of 86,184 words.

This makes it 115% the length of the average book. It also has 105% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Hölderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 50 minutes to read Hölderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche aloud.

What Reading Level is Hölderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche?

Hölderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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